Indian advancements in Supercomputing

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https://www.armscontrol.org/issuebriefs/Science-Replaces-Nuclear-Tests

Science Replaces Nuclear Tests

I heard somewhere that India also have this capability now.

 

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I heard somewhere that India also have this capability now.

It is rumored that even data from 1974 smiling Buddha test were used in supercomputers before 1998 tests?

http://www.quora.com/Why-were-nuclear-bombs-tested-by-India-twice-in-1974-and-1998


Why were nuclear bombs tested by India twice in 1974 and 1998?


1 Answer
Dhaval Trivedi, Book Warm, Foreign Policy Observer,Historian

The nuclear tests had been carried out twice in 1974 and 1998. The test of the 1974 has carried out to show the world about India's capability. As India was on the verge to become the victim of the cold war in the Bangladesh Liberation war 1971 when US sent his submarine to Bay of Bengal and to counter the US task force, Russia had sent the nuke Submarine after it.

At that time the treaty between India and Pakistan had calm down the situation, but Indira Gandhi had decided to show the world that India also could make the nuke bomb. So the test had been carried out in 18th May 1974. The first test was quite basic as it is weight of 1400 KG and diameter of 1.2 meter. But the interesting point is we had achieved the uranium enrichment. The nuclear weapon yeild (power) was the same as it was bombed on Hiroshima. Though earlier India wanted to downsize the nuclear yeild to avoid the sanctions from the world.

The second test in 1998 had shown the real Indian power to the world. The P5+1 countries knew that India had been planning to test the nuke. They had given the task to US to prevent India from any adventure. Once they had succeed when they caught Narasimha Rao. But when Vajpayee govt. did in May 1998, the world was shocked and surprised because of the power of the nuke technologies India had developed. There were five tests have been covered in the second test called as Pokharan - II.


1. Shakti I – A thermonuclear device yielding 45 kt, but designed for up to 200 kt. (Powerfull to destroy the city like Mumbai).
2. Shakti II – A plutonium implosion design yielding 15 kt and intended as a warhead that could be delivered by bomber or missile. It was an improvement of the device detonated in the 1974 Smiling Buddha (Pokhran-I) test of 1974, developed using simulations on the PARAM supercomputer.
3. Shakti III – An experimental boosted fission design that is used "non-weapon grade"[14] plutonium, but which likely omitted the material required for fusion, yielding 0.3 kt.
4. Shakti IV- A 0.5 kt experimental device.
5. Shakti V – A 0.2 kt experimental device that used uranium-233.

The interesting part is all the tests have been carried out with super computers which have been built by ISRO and DRDO scientists. India had also developed the launching pads for the nuclear weapons in that time. This had helped to develop the missile program led by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

 

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Supercomputers to be Installed at 73 Locations Across Country
Sunday, September 27, 2015

The National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), a mission to have supercomputers at IITs, the Centres for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DACs) and the Indian Institutes of Scientific Education and Research (IISER’s) has decided to place supercomputers in 73 locations across the country including several in Bengaluru.

Researchers will look into applications of supercomputing ranging from materials research to life sciences issues like drug discovery. The computers will be located mostly in academic institutions, universities and research organisations.

“We will install 73 supercomputers in different parts of the country and all will be linked by a computer grid called Garuda. This is a Rs 4,500-crore scheme in which Rs 2,800 crore will come from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the balance of Rs 1,700 crore from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT),” a top official from the department of Science and Technology said.

Three Categories
The supercomputing initiative is looking at geo exploration, finding reserves of oil and gas, astrophysics, disaster management and flood forecasting among other focus areas like drug discovery. The network will comprise three large-scale computers, 20 mid-sized supercomputers and 50 lower-end computers. The project is jointly being implemented by the C-DAC and Indian Institute of Science (IISc).

The mission has been conceptualised and evolved keeping in view the increasing computing demand of the scientific and academic community in the country, international technology trends and roadmaps, strategic importance and emergence of supercomputing as a benchmark for scientific and technological advancements.


These supercomputers will also be networked on the national supercomputing grid over the National Knowledge Network (NKN), a programme of the government which connects academic institutions and R&D labs over a high-speed network. The computers will be located mostly in academic institutions, universities and research organisations.

The National Supercomputing Mission was proposed in 2011 by a group of scientists and the planning commission which saw the need to supplement India's supercomputing capabilities.
“But over the years, India's supercomputing powers have lagged other nations. Currently, China, United States, Japan, Switzerland and Germany figure prominently in the list of countries with most supercomputing powers.



http://www.deccanherald.com/content/502914/supercomputers-installed-73-locations-across.html

 

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http://io9.com/5916320/supercomputer-simulates-nuclear-explosion-down-to-the-molecular-level

Supercomputer simulates nuclear explosion down to the molecular level

 

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It is rumored that even data from 1974 smiling Buddha test were used in supercomputers before 1998 tests?

http://www.quora.com/Why-were-nuclear-bombs-tested-by-India-twice-in-1974-and-1998


Why were nuclear bombs tested by India twice in 1974 and 1998?


1 Answer
Dhaval Trivedi, Book Warm, Foreign Policy Observer,Historian

The nuclear tests had been carried out twice in 1974 and 1998. The test of the 1974 has carried out to show the world about India's capability. As India was on the verge to become the victim of the cold war in the Bangladesh Liberation war 1971 when US sent his submarine to Bay of Bengal and to counter the US task force, Russia had sent the nuke Submarine after it.

At that time the treaty between India and Pakistan had calm down the situation, but Indira Gandhi had decided to show the world that India also could make the nuke bomb. So the test had been carried out in 18th May 1974. The first test was quite basic as it is weight of 1400 KG and diameter of 1.2 meter. But the interesting point is we had achieved the uranium enrichment. The nuclear weapon yeild (power) was the same as it was bombed on Hiroshima. Though earlier India wanted to downsize the nuclear yeild to avoid the sanctions from the world.

The second test in 1998 had shown the real Indian power to the world. The P5+1 countries knew that India had been planning to test the nuke. They had given the task to US to prevent India from any adventure. Once they had succeed when they caught Narasimha Rao. But when Vajpayee govt. did in May 1998, the world was shocked and surprised because of the power of the nuke technologies India had developed. There were five tests have been covered in the second test called as Pokharan - II.


1. Shakti I – A thermonuclear device yielding 45 kt, but designed for up to 200 kt. (Powerfull to destroy the city like Mumbai).
2. Shakti II – A plutonium implosion design yielding 15 kt and intended as a warhead that could be delivered by bomber or missile. It was an improvement of the device detonated in the 1974 Smiling Buddha (Pokhran-I) test of 1974, developed using simulations on the PARAM supercomputer.
3. Shakti III – An experimental boosted fission design that is used "non-weapon grade"[14] plutonium, but which likely omitted the material required for fusion, yielding 0.3 kt.
4. Shakti IV- A 0.5 kt experimental device.
5. Shakti V – A 0.2 kt experimental device that used uranium-233.

The interesting part is all the tests have been carried out with super computers which have been built by ISRO and DRDO scientists. India had also developed the launching pads for the nuclear weapons in that time. This had helped to develop the missile program led by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

But all our rivals including some of our own scientists question the credibility of these results.

 

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India to get Indigenously-built supercomputer next year

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

 

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http://qz.com/702015/beating-the-go...on-on-a-supercomputer-to-predict-the-monsoon/

Beating the gods: India will spend $60 million on a supercomputer to predict the monsoon

 

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https://analyticsindiamag.com/can-india-make-quantum-computing-reality-near-future/


Can India Make Quantum Computing A Reality In The Near Future?

Quantum computing is, in a way paving the way for the development of fifth generation of computers and scores over existing computing methods by performing more efficient algorithms than traditional computing.

According to an Accenture report, governments across the world are forging ahead with quantum computing initiatives – the US, based on a 2016 report from the National Science and Technology Council, “recommended significant and sustained investment in quantum information science by engaging with academia, industry and government.” While the Australian government in early 2016 announced an AUD$25 million investment over a period of five years toward the development of a silicon quantum integrated circuit. And the European Commission plans to launch a $1.13 billion project in 2018 to support a range of quantum technologies.

Likewise, India, in an attempt to tap into the next big advances in computing technology, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) is planning to fund a project to develop quantum computers. The Physics departments at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, have also forayed into the theoretical aspects of quantum computing, a DST official said that “the time has come to build one.” However, Indian experts deem that the true quantum computers are still years away, and existing systems use principles of quantum computing to solve very limited problems.

Hardware Limitations – Biggest Barrier to Quantum Computing
The biggest hurdle to developing quantum computers is the hardware issues in quantum technology. According to Michael J Biercuk, primary investigator in the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney, “quantum computers as faster versions of today’s computers, (we should) think of them as computers that function in a totally new way”. But when it comes to building quantum computers, it remains at best an abstract idea.

Can India leapfrog in the quantum computing race – factors that work in our favour

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
1) So far, there was no effort to build a quantum computer in India:The reason why India lagged behind in quantum computing is that there was no concerted effort to build a quantum computer. Even though India scientists are working on theoretical research in quantum computing, India lacks experimental facilities to carry out the work. In terms of R&D India lags behind other countries – one of the reasons why in the last 10 years, there have been less than 100 international journal publications from India on quantum computing.

2) Top Institutes dedicated to research in quantum computing: Some of the top institutes in India working in this direction are Raman Research Institute, dedicated to theoretical physics and astrophysics and as per the institute, RRI has accumulated infrastructural capability and intellectual knowhow to conduct cutting edge research in the fields of quantum information, quantum computing and quantum communication using quantum optics.

Other institutes such as IISc set up a Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Computation (CQIQC) in 2010 as a 5-year Research Project sanctioned by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The project ended in 2015.

Some of the major breakthroughs are coming The Quantum Measurement and Control Laboratory (QuMaC) at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research dedicated to investigating the quantum phenomena in superconducting circuits. Our lab aims to tackle the fundamental challenges in building and controlling such quantum systems.

Chennai’s The Institute of Mathematical Sciences has a Optics & Quantum Information Group with research interests pertaining to Quantum Algorithms, Quantum open systems & Quantum Information and quantum Simulations among others.


Dr Rajamani Vijayaraghavan of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
3) Deep Talent —India has eminent scientists: India is home to the best scientists working on quantum computing. For example, CM Chandrashekar is a faculty member at the theoretical physics unit of The Institute of Mathematical Sciences and is also an Affiliate Member of the Institute For Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada.

One of the most notable names in quantum computing is Dr Rajamani Vijayaraghavan of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research whose research deals with Quantum computing and quantum simulation using superconducting quantum circuits and understanding collective behavior in superconducting quantum bits among other areas.

Besides Dr Vijayaraghavan, Dr Apoorva D. Patel, Professor at the Centre for High Energy Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is well-known for his work on quantum algorithms, and the application of information theory concepts to understand the structure of genetic languages. His major field of work Quantum Algorithms and the Genetic Code also received wide publicity.

4) Indian government initiative QuST aims to develop quantum computing technologies in India: Last year, the Indian government set up the initiative – Quantum Information Science and Technology (QuST) with an aim to revolutionize the future computation and communication systems which will ultimately have huge impact on India. some of the broad objectives of Qust to develop quantum computers and propel the development of advanced mathematical quantum techniques, algorithms and theory of quantum information systems. The government invited proposals from noted academicians, scientists, technologists and other practicing researchers around quantum information technologies.

How can India make quantum computing a reality in future?


According to M. Jagadesh Kumar, renowned Indian academician known for his contribution in the field of semiconductor device design and modelling – developing quantum computational capacity should be India’s “top national priority” since sourcing these technologies from outside the country will prove to be difficult and expensive. Besides weather predictions, the use of quantum computing in India can lead to many fundamental scientific breakthroughs on many fronts – commercial applications such as data encryption and even new drug discovery.

• Kumar proposed that for India to steer ahead in the quantum computing race, the country should set up a Roadmap Group comprising of academicians, industry representatives, and end users.
• Even though there are a lot of research groups in India, one should encourage academicians and theoretical computer scientists to work in close collaboration.
• To generate a wide interest among students, the country should set up high value fellowships to encourage doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to work in the area of quantum computing.
• More conferences and workshops should be held in India on quantum computing to generate interest.
• Quantum Computing can lead to gains not just in drug discovery & weather predictions but also financial analysis, logistical planning and also in space discovery, noted American tech entrepreneur Vivek Wadhwa.

 

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We have all the needed resource for quantum com. Best idea is to get D-wave system from Canada and study it , before venturing to build an Indian version.

 

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India's Pratyush supercomputer is the 39th most powerful globall